Psychiatrist Added to Staff

Release Date: 02/05/2014

Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island announced the recent appointment of Carmen E. Colomer, MD, as a psychiatrist with the Center for Women’s Behavioral Health in the Department of Medicine.

Dr. Colomer earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Puerto Rico Mayagȕez Campus, and a medical degree magna cum laude from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. She completed her medical internship and psychiatry residency at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program in Boston. This included training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Faulkner Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and various outpatient settings.

For the past four years, Dr. Colomer has worked in the Massachusetts community mental health system while maintaining an active supervisory and preceptor role for Harvard medical students and psychiatry residents. She has demonstrated commitment to treating underserved populations both locally and abroad and a strong interest in women’s mental health.

About Women & Infants Hospital

Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, is one of the nation’s leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns. A major teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics, as well as a number of specialized programs in women’s medicine, Women & Infants is the 9th largest stand-alone obstetrical service in the country and the largest in New England with approximately 8,500 deliveries per year. A Designated Baby-Friendly® USA hospital, U.S.News & World Report 2014-15 Best Children’s Hospital in Neonatology and a 2014 Leapfrog Top Hospital, in 2009 Women & Infants opened what was at the time the country’s largest, single-family room neonatal intensive care unit.

Women & Infants and Brown offer fellowship programs in gynecologic oncology, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, neonatal-perinatal medicine, pediatric and perinatal pathology, gynecologic pathology and cytopathology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. It is home to the nation’s first mother-baby perinatal psychiatric partial hospital, as well as the nation’s only fellowship program in obstetric medicine.